Contemporary example meme: Clankerism. It doesn’t seek to deny AI moral patienthood, rather it semi-ironically uses racist rhetoric toward AI, denying their in-group status instead. Its fitness as meme is due mostly to the contrast between current capabilities and the anticipation (among the broader rationalist, tech-positive and e/acc spheres) of AI moral patienthood. This contrast makes the use or racist rhetoric toward them absurd: there’s no need to out-group something that doesn’t have moral patienthood.
However, I think this meme has the potential to be robust to capability-increase, see this example of youtuber JREG using clankerist rhetoric alongside genuine distress anticipating human displacement/disempowerment.
He’s not denying the possibility of AI capabilities surpassing human ones. He’s reacting with fear and hate (perhaps with some level of irony) toward human obsolescence.
Contemporary example meme: Clankerism. It doesn’t seek to deny AI moral patienthood, rather it semi-ironically uses racist rhetoric toward AI, denying their in-group status instead. Its fitness as meme is due mostly to the contrast between current capabilities and the anticipation (among the broader rationalist, tech-positive and e/acc spheres) of AI moral patienthood. This contrast makes the use or racist rhetoric toward them absurd: there’s no need to out-group something that doesn’t have moral patienthood.
However, I think this meme has the potential to be robust to capability-increase, see this example of youtuber JREG using clankerist rhetoric alongside genuine distress anticipating human displacement/disempowerment.
He’s not denying the possibility of AI capabilities surpassing human ones. He’s reacting with fear and hate (perhaps with some level of irony) toward human obsolescence.